Games Keep Randomly Crashing/Freezing
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Hey I'm trying to troubleshoot this problem. A little background
Recently my graphics card completely died. It would just display the screen on integrated graphics and with lines everywhere. A friend sent me a replacement card, a GTX 770. I had a little issue getting it set up, but for the first few days things were fine.
Now I will randomly freeze/crash whenever I play a game. The game itself will crash or freeze, and then it will be fine for a while before randomly doing it again. Sometimes it'll happen twice in 30 minutes, other times I can go for hours without anything happening.
I've tried reinstalling the drivers and moving the card to a different PCI slot, neither seemed to work. I'm kind of at a loss at what to do now.
Recently my graphics card completely died. It would just display the screen on integrated graphics and with lines everywhere. A friend sent me a replacement card, a GTX 770. I had a little issue getting it set up, but for the first few days things were fine.
Now I will randomly freeze/crash whenever I play a game. The game itself will crash or freeze, and then it will be fine for a while before randomly doing it again. Sometimes it'll happen twice in 30 minutes, other times I can go for hours without anything happening.
I've tried reinstalling the drivers and moving the card to a different PCI slot, neither seemed to work. I'm kind of at a loss at what to do now.
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Based on your post, I'm making an assumption your card that died was a AMD card? I could be reading too much into the post though.
Also yes on above. Can you try tightening down the screws on the CPU cooler?
The computer didn't seem to running pretty hot when I opened it up to switch ports a minute ago.
The dead card is a GeForce 760. The replacement card is a GeForce 770. And tighten the screws on the CPU cooler? I am not I can do that.
And when I was running integrated graphics I wasn't having these issues, but also I couldn't see half of the spell effects necessary to play the games I was playing.
Also, maybe it's something with your drive?
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It's every game across multiple publishers, and I've tried reinstalling the driver three times now.
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Assuming the card takes a 6-pin connector, if you have a spare connection (or replacement cord) from the PSU I'd change that and see if it's any better. Also, I'd suggest you see if you can get something to monitor voltage.
If you can't swap the power cord, and the DDU thing that Shadowfire recommended doesn't work, I would take a good long look at swapping out the power supply and see if that helps.
Ok I did this and the good news is that shit stopped crashing all the time, it just locks up for about .5 seconds or so at a random times.
What the exact minimum is depends on what else there is in your system and also some PSU's a more capable than others despite the specs listed being the same - a 500 watt PSU seems to be consensus on whats the minimum.
Ironically, using more up to date drivers causes games to completely crash as opposed to lock up for .5 seconds.
I don't know the specs of my power source, it's been years since I built this thing.
Open the box, there will be a label on the PSU telling you what it is.
I replaced the power supply. It fixed things! For a few weeks! Until yesterday, suddenly, when in the middle of a game everything started to chug and the game would freeze up for random intervals of time.
I turned off the computer last night and tried things again, but it keeps happening. Again. Programs keep freezing. Sometimes the screen will go black for a period of time. I am extremely frustrated and have no idea what to do at this point.
It seems unlikely the new PSU is at fault, except if it is some old used one that has been sitting since then it might have been on its last leg.
Did you like for example move the computer, try new games, update drivers...?
If nothing comes to mind I can see two ways forward.
A. Reinstall windows, drivers and games and see what it what.
B. Start swapping parts ie. first step is to remove anything not essential to eliminate possible causes. Next if the problem persist then swap out parts one at a time, to see if it changes things and when it does you likely have found the root of the problem.
I dunno which parts to swap out because I don't have any spare parts and I don't know which ones are 'nonessential' to the point where I can just remove parts.
This is worth revisiting now that you have a new psu. What's the rating on the new one?
Googling says the 770 draws 250w vs the 760 at 170w. Not a huge gap but could make a difference if you have something like a 450-500w psu
The PSU is 750w
I'd look for popped capacitors on your mobo at this rate, or just maybe take a sniff and see if you can smell the tell tale sweet maple syrup smell. Since it is behaving like a power issue, but the PSU was replaced, that would be my first bet.
https://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html